Risk management in health care institutions
Subtitle: a strategic approach
By: Florence Kavaler, Allen Spiegel.
Contributors: Spiegel, Allen D.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Health facilities -- Risk management.; Health facilities -- Risk management -- United States.; Health Facilities -- organization & administration -- United States; Risk Management -- methods -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Risk management dynamics; title: Ch. 2. Regulatory environment: standards and risk management; title: Ch. 3. Identifying and controlling risks as an employer; title: Ch. 4. Patient/consumer communications to reduce risk; title: Ch. 5. Financing risk and insurance; title: Ch. 6. Total quality management, continuous quality/process improvement, and evaluation of the risk management program; title: Ch. 7. Ethical issues for risk managers; title: Ch. 8. Assuring safety and security in health care institutions; title: Ch. 9. A primer on medical malpractice; title: Ch. 10. Strategies to reduce liability: managing physicians and litigation alternatives; title: Ch. 11. Risk management in psychiatry; title: Ch. 12. Identifying and controlling risks in long term care: nursing homes and home health care; title: Ch. 13. Risk management in selected high risk hospital departments; title: Ch. 14. Risk management in managed care organizations; title: Ch. 15. Integrated health care delivery systems.